Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-07-02

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if by any accident or mischance the
student is not able to go through the
course and graduate in this formal
| manner, yet the principal benefits of
the school may be reached, although
perhaps in an inferior degree, if the
pupil has been industrious and atten-
tive. Nevertheless, as browning
honor, and as an evidence that the
school days have been well spent,
that the mind has been improved and
the heart and feelings cultivated, the
diploma is thing to be sought al.
ter, and priced when obtained.
This being exclusively an insti
tute for the instruction of young la
dies, it is an occasion that naturally
presents to the mind the question,
now much agitated, of the desirabili-
ty of the higher development of the
education of woman. / do not pro-
pose at this time to engage in any
discussiin as to the relative capacity
of the two sexes for the highest In
tellectual advancement. do not
think any good comes from such a
discussion in such place as this, and
/ doubt very much whether it has
been so conducted in the public press
and other places as to have been very
useful in any other sense that this
that it has resulted in the removal of
the impression that there is natur-
al inferiority on the part OF the fe-
male.
A young lady can now attain de-
gree of excellence in the dead lam
guages in the Norwood Institute and
| doubt not in many other female
schools, equal to that given in the
higher grades of institutions for the
education of young men. Indeed, it
is by no means certain that after the
study of the modern languages, such
as French, German, and Italian, our
young ladies do not come out of their
schools better prepared for their use
than the average young man who
graduates in the more pretentious
colleges. And though in after-life
the young lady who leaves school
with an ability to speak French, re-
curing Tut little use to make it per-
feet, apparently loses it by reason, as
a lawyer would say, of non-user, yet,
if occasion require, it may be readily
recovered. The ability to read those
languages is never entirely lost, but
Is always source of pleasure and
profit. / myself attach more value
to the capability threading easily the
modern tongues of Europe to the av-
erage human being, whether male or
female, and especially the latter, than
do to knowledge of Greek and
Latin.
Norwood Institute is situated in
one of the most charming portions
of the city. Its ample rooms, its
easy accession to pure air, and its
fine surroundings invite confidence
at once in the prospect of comfort
and health to the pupil. 1t is under
the immediate care of Mr.. and Mrs.
Cabell, both of whom give their en-
tire time to its supervision and to
the tuition of those entrusted to their
care. Mr.. Cabell had a large exper-
fence as teacher of young men be-
fore he came to Washington, and
Mrs. Cabell seems to have been fit
ted by nature and her own education
for the duties which she first assum-
ed some five years ago in this city.
1t was opened in this city Septem-
Der 90, 1882, with about thirty pu-
pills, four of them boarders. 1t in
creased before the close of the ses-
sion to 46. Each year it has gained
steadily in numbers, until in this, the
fifth session. it counts an attendance
during the school year of one hum
dred and ten, of whom twenty are
boarders.
In addition to Mr.. and Mrs. Ca